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Related: About this forumAtheists plan to spiff up CR98 Saturday of anointing oil left by Christians a year ago
Posted: 9:15 PM
Last Updated: 11 hours and 24 minutes ago
By: Alison Morrow
POLK COUNTY, Fla. - In Christian circles, the Road to Damascus is the biblical site of the Apostle Paul's conversion from a persecutor of Christians to one of them. It's a road now stoked with symbolism, used in reference to watershed experiences.
In a much less literal sense, it's kind of like County Road 98, which straddles the conversion from Pasco County to Polk County, and for some, a turf war of sorts.
"What concerns us is the message that it sends," said Atheist of Florida member Rob Curry. "A very chilling message that, if you're not a Christian, if you don't believe as we do, then you're not welcome."
Curry's referring to a road-anointing performed on CR 98 last year as part of the "Polk Under Prayer" campaign, where Christians poured olive oil on the asphalt and prayed over it, calling for a revival in the area.
http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/region_polk/atheists-plan-to-spiff-up-cr98-saturday-of-anointing-oil-left-by-christians-a-year-ago
I don't know what's stupider, pouring olive oil on a county road to anoint it or washing the road a year later.
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Atheists plan to spiff up CR98 Saturday of anointing oil left by Christians a year ago (Original Post)
rug
Mar 2012
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Ezlivin
(8,153 posts)1. They should use goat urine to wash it off
And see if the righteous take note.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)2. Yeah, because cleaning up the mess made by some wingnuts is stupid.
And I mean both the physical and the metaphorical mess that they have made. Much like the Catholic church has done with child-raping priests. That mess is undergoing a clean-up too.
rug
(82,333 posts)3. Yes, this will go a long way to accomplish that.
BTW, congratulations. You've managed to go three posts before typing "child-raping priests".
Stay strong.